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Viola Davis Captures SAG Award, Addresses Colorism In America On Sunday, Viola Davis won a Screen Actor’s Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for ABC’s smash hit, “How To Get Away With Murder.” During her SAG Award acceptance speech, Davis addressed colorism in Hollywood and America. “When I tell […]

Rick Klein, Political Director for ABC News, joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to analyze the political landscape in the final weekend before the 2014 midterm elections and discussed how vital minority votes are for the Democratic party to hold onto the Senate. Klein said, “… if the Obama coalition of voters, young voters, African American […]

Rep. Elijah Cummings joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss Tuesday’s Secret Service hearing and the latest rash of security breaches at the White House. Rep. Cummings told Martin the Secret Service has not served President Barack Obama well and called for Julia Pierson, the organizations current director, to be ousted from her position. Dr. Seema Yasmin […]

Are you concerned that your kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews won’t have the same Black experience growing up as you did? ABC’s new sitcom, “Black-ish” is about a family whose father is struggling with just that. Andre (Anthony Anderson) tries to ensure that his children have a sense of cultural identity while growing up in a white, upper-middle-class […]

Source: Jethro Nededog / TheWrap Since pilot season, people wondered how a show called “Black-ish” could make fun of race so overtly and still get a green light from ABC. The show’s creator distanced the comedy’s core subject matter from race. “This show has so much less to do with race than it does culture,” Kenya Barris […]

Source: Michael O’Connell / The Hollywood Reporter Veteran writer-producer Larry Wilmore has been having an exceptionally good year, first seeing his ABC comedy Black-ish picked up to series and then, a few days later, being tapped to succeed Stephen Colbert with his own Comedy Central show. But Wilmore can’t do both. So when he appeared with Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and the series’ cast at a […]

Source: Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter ABC is extending its relationship with John Ridley. The Oscar-winning scribe behind 12 Years a Slave — who has ABC drama American Crime due midseason — has inked an overall deal with the studio. ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee made the announcement Tuesday during his time at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour. “He’s an […]

Source: Dan Good / ABC News The Ultimate Warrior, one of professional wrestling’s biggest superstars, has died at 54, days after being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, WWE officials said in a statement. “WWE is shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the passing of one of the most iconic WWE superstars ever, […]

Source: Maria Puente / USA Today Well, this is a little disturbing: It turns out that Chinese television viewers may think Scandal is a true reflection of the president and first lady and Washington in general. But first lady Michelle Obama, who’s in China and also loves Scandal, put them straight. The first lady, who’s been in China since last week, […]